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Eric Platon
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Special end of year presents on mediocrity. Had to. Just discovering that the meaning of mediocrity changed with Renaissance in Europe (don’t know which one yet). Mediocrity was apparently not pejorative before! Sharing here, but the books are in French only afaik.
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Eric Platon
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The back cover is rich: Mediocrity used to mean anything “median”, finding compromise , perplexity, mood balance, notion of androgyny, intermediary positioning in politics and religion. Very different from post-Renaissance apparently.
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Eric Platon
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Would there be similar studies in English? @vgr does this sound like compatible with your models?
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
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Sounds like the ancients had it right Is “mediocre” a French loan word in English? Sounds like it. If so I guess I’d trust francophone historical analysis.
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